Mozilla Monitor website will be down for 2 hours starting 5/20/2025 at 6 AM PT. Visit our status site for updates.

Avatar for Username

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Firefox command line "no-remote" option launches a redirect to spam

  • 3 replies
  • 2 have this problem
  • 409 views
  • Last reply by cor-el

Scott
Scott

I have set up multiple Firefox profiles. I want to be able to run multiple profiles at the same time, so I created shell script to start each profile; example:

nohup /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p User01 no-remote > /dev/null 2>&1 &

When I do this, I get the following pop-up. The ending may change, but the domain.domainggateway.com section that seems to start the redirect appears every time.

http://11165504-364378.domain.domaingateway.com/redirect?o=0&y=0&x=0&r=http%3A%2F%2Fpdamv.bidsystem.com%2Fppc%2Fclick.aspx <deleted long string - c>

I narrowed it down by determining it will only happen when I use the "no-remote" option.

I suspected I had Malware from a Plugin. So I carefully and completely uninstalled Firefox, twice. Yet both times I continued to get this pop-up when starting via the above command. I have not found a solution.

I now suspect whatever is launching this code is inside the official Firefox download, but I'm not sure how to dig into this any further. Ideas on how to figure out where this is coming from and how to correct?

Mac OS-X 10.10.5 Firefox 4.0.0.3

Thanks

I have set up multiple Firefox profiles. I want to be able to run multiple profiles at the same time, so I created shell script to start each profile; example: nohup /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p User01 no-remote > /dev/null 2>&1 & When I do this, I get the following pop-up. The ending may change, but the domain.domainggateway.com section that seems to start the redirect appears every time. http://11165504-364378.domain.domaingateway.com/redirect?o=0&y=0&x=0&r=http%3A%2F%2Fpdamv.bidsystem.com%2Fppc%2Fclick.aspx ''<deleted long string - c>'' I narrowed it down by determining it will only happen when I use the "no-remote" option. I suspected I had Malware from a Plugin. So I carefully and completely uninstalled Firefox, twice. Yet both times I continued to get this pop-up when starting via the above command. I have not found a solution. I now suspect whatever is launching this code is inside the official Firefox download, but I'm not sure how to dig into this any further. Ideas on how to figure out where this is coming from and how to correct? Mac OS-X 10.10.5 Firefox 4.0.0.3 Thanks

Modified by cor-el

Chosen solution

You are missing the leading hyphen before "-no-remote", so Firefox thinks that you want to open the no-remote website.

  • nohup /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -no-remote -p "User01" > /dev/null 2>&1 &

You can add -no-remote to the command line to open another Firefox instance with its own profile and run multiple Firefox instances simultaneously.

Note that you can't open external links in a Firefox instance started with the -no-remote switch, usually it is recommended to launch the default profile without the -no-remote switch unless you never need to open external links (clicking a link in an email) in Firefox.

Read this answer in context 👍 1

All Replies (3)

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator

Chosen Solution

You are missing the leading hyphen before "-no-remote", so Firefox thinks that you want to open the no-remote website.

  • nohup /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -no-remote -p "User01" > /dev/null 2>&1 &

You can add -no-remote to the command line to open another Firefox instance with its own profile and run multiple Firefox instances simultaneously.

Note that you can't open external links in a Firefox instance started with the -no-remote switch, usually it is recommended to launch the default profile without the -no-remote switch unless you never need to open external links (clicking a link in an email) in Firefox.

Modified by cor-el

Scott
Scott Question owner

@cor-el I think you are right :)

I certainly did forget the leading dash and after adding it the problems seems to have gone away. Thanks so much for answering my question!

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator

You're welcome.

You easily look over such typos and then it take ages to notice them :wink: